What should I do with my tumblelog, gentle reader? I started it as a repository for the poems contributed at Giovanni’s place and other scrapbook-like goodness. With it, I added the syndication plugin here, since these pages are the centripetal universe so far as what I put online goes. Over time, however, the poems became more of a feature and less of a sideline, and the slight incompatibility of titling and linking conventions meant the imported posts didn’t look quite right in their formatting. So I called a halt, as is my prerogative.
But what to do with it? I like the formatting onsite; I like its function as a scrapbook, but I don’t want to develop an alternative location to these pages — and (yeah but, yeah but) I don’t want those pages to languish either. It feels as if there’s still potential in that space, but for what of mine, I don’t quite know. Your suggestions are sought.
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Unless they have a clear purpose I find spaces like that on the Web more of a problem than an asset. Perhaps you could use it as a repository for something specific, say some of those photos you’ve been scanning, or a particular strand in your writing. Then again, you could also really easily create an ad-hoc blog for that sort of stuff (or use tags on Harvestbird and include it under selected writings). For everything else it seems to me it’s not different enough from a blog, a Twitter account, a Facebook feed or a delicious page to warrant the mental effort, but then you’re a much more sophisticated user of these tools than I am.
I’m trying something new, which is more-or-less replicating what FriendFeed (to which I also subscribe) does, but at the tumblelog site. I’m going to see how long I find it interesting to aggregate all my links there (delicious, Digg, Twitter, this site, etc.) and reflect on the results thereafter.
Solve et coagulare.